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To: lurk

I do not see why not. Just a question of making the rail gun big enough or improvements in the magnets to achieve orbital velocity. The question would would the projectile and/or components survive the forces caused by the acceleration.


13 posted on 02/25/2015 7:56:37 AM PST by C19fan
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And survive coming back into the atmosphere. I would assume the projectile would burn up.


14 posted on 02/25/2015 8:53:15 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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